HOUSTON – Smart Financial CU has signed a multi-year contract with Data Foundry for disaster recovery services.
The $410 million credit union will use one of Data Foundry’s custom built cages to securely house their critical IT infrastructure in the event of a local disaster. Smart Financial will leverage Data Foundry’s Austin Data Center to meet the distance requirement of their Disaster Recovery plan.
Data Foundry is based in Austin, Texas.
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